Congolese should stand up and be counted

Editor,  Aren’t there Congolese patriots who are ashamed of their country’s post-independence history – from Katangese involvement in the murder of Patrice Emery Lumumba, through the generalised kleptocracy and alienation of the long Mobutu years to today’s misrule characterised by lack of any public goods, regular mass rapes, killings and looting by the very forces supposed to protect the populace?